Marian Cinnamond currently lives in Northern Ireland and has lived there since 1974 but was born in Westmorland. She thinks there is a spiritual element to the project as well as physical and emotional. She has recently put on a lot of weight and feels that society judges by the space that a person takes up; she is there for the dumpy middle-aged women. She works with people with dementia and thinks it is important that individuals have choices. She is doing the project for herself. Family is important to her; she lives with her daughter. She has three children and three grandchildren; she was widowed when her children were 14, 13 and 9 which she found very isolating. It is important that she does work that means something to her. She is afraid of being a fool, or being boring, she is also afraid of heights. She has brought her knitting and will take photographs. She is knitting a green cardigan for her sister; she has knitted since she was at primary school. She came from a family that was very proud to be working class; her parents were very active in the Labour party. She met her husband in Northern Ireland, had three children and went to university in her 30s. When her youngest daughter got married she went to Pakistan to volunteer, she then worked in London.